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A L O C A L P A P E R P I T F O R ANY H O M E -* P R O G R E S S IV E . N E W S Y . IN D E P E N D E N T
Bohem ia tiold M ininji D istrict and T h irty Saw M illing Enterprises T rib u ta ry to Cottage Drove. D airying, F r u it (irow ing, F arm in g are Profitable
C O T T A G E G K O V E L E A D E R ' C o n » o ll(U l» d j t n u u r I . I 9 0 S .
BO HEM IA NUGGET
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A BOIIII10
How Black Spot May be
Eradicated in All
Apple Varities
After m uch expel a u d itin g with
different sprays it has been fouihl
th a t black spot” or ' ‘Baldwin
spot' in apples cannot be over
come by spraying, from th e fact
th a t it is caused from a condition
of the soil and not from any pest
or fungus condition in the tree.
A Hood River orchardist who has
been m ak in g a study of black spot
ill apples, especially Baldwins, has
discovered that a certain fertilizer
scattered on the ground around
the tree will not only eradicate the
black spot but also increase the
production of fruit.
Regarding
this remedy, K. S. M organ, of
Hood River, says:
“I deeided to
try this fertilizer as sixm as 1 heard
of it and wrote to the San F ran
cisco m anufacturers about it and
they a t'o n c e wrote me and asked
for an analysis of the soil about
these diseased trees. T his 1 made
a t once and sent them, and in a
few weeks they ship|ied m e 200
pounds of fertilizer with in stru c
tions to apply it to ten trees, tw enty
pounds to a tree, and asked me to
let them know the next summer,
or fall, the result.
T his fertilizer w as applied, as
directed, in N ovem ber of 1909, and
in the sp rin g every oue of the ten
trees took oil new life and vigor.
T h e leaves were of a much darker
green, they all blossomed, and
last fall 1 picked a good crop of
perfect apples from every one of
the trees.
Not a single apple on
any of these trees had a trace of
Baldwin S p o t.” T he other trees
in the orchard had, as usual, large
q u antities of apples badly affected.
W hile this seemed almost too good
to he true, it was a sufficient dem
onstration for me and I at once
ordered a sufficient quantity of the
fertilizer to cover the entire old
orchard, an d this was applied last
Novem ber.
I feel sure th a t next
fall I will not only have no ‘‘Bald
win Spot” hut I will have a larger
an d better crop of apples than f
h av e ever had.
f wrote the agricultural college
of my success, and they seem con
vinced th a t 1 have found th e rem
edy.
T hey have already given
th is inform ation to several fruit
m en, and a num ber of them have
w ritten me for the nam e of the
com pany m anufacturing this fer
tilizer.
Requests have come to me from
farm papers for articles upon the
subject, and, while I do n o t con
sider m yself bv any m eans an au
thority upon an y subject p ertain
in g to the fruit industry, I am
pleased to give the result of my
experim ents if by so doing it would
assist my nciglilior or brother or
ch ardist in solving some of the
sam e perplexing problems th a t I
h av e had to com bat.
T he nam e of the
firm from
whom I pure la st'd this fertilizer is
th e Pacific G uano & Fertilizer Co.,
3 1 0 S ansom e street, San Francisco,
.C alifo rn ia, and any com m unica
tions addressed to them upon this
subject will receive prom pt and
most courteous attention.
Do Your Own Grafting.
T he season is draw ing near for
grafting of fruit trees and therefore
th e Leader gives its readers the
follow ing excellent w ax form ula:
T he com ponent parts of grafting
w ax are resin, tallow and beeswax.
Sometimes linseed oil is used.
M utton tallow is to lie preferred to
beef tallow, because it is softer.
T h e pro]x>rtions are as follows:
R esin..................................... 4 pounds
B eesw ax.................................1 pound
Tallow ................................... ] pound
F irst' melt the resin, then add
th e other ingredients.
Melt and
m ix thoroughly.
T his m akes a
soft, pliable w ax, which will keep
for years. If the w eather is cold
when it is tak en into the orchard
Co.
C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R E G O N , T U E S D A Y , F E B R U A R Y a i, i g n
for use keep it in a dish of warm
or hot water. O r it m ay be kept
iu a small dish with a lam p u n d er
neath. If it is desired to have the
w ax a little softer add a trifle more
of beesw ax or a little less resin.
For harder w ax, reverse the pro
cess, using more resin. If more
convenient, linseed oil m ay be
used instead of tallow , but th e pro
portions would be a little different.
It is easy to melt and test, addiug
ingredients as you w ant the w ax
softer k or harder. T he above will
be found about right to spread
easily over the w ounds, and yet
firm enough to stay w ithout m elt
ing and running off when the sun
gets hot.
Steam Plow for Creswell.
Schm itt Brothers’ new catap illar
engine is expected the first of next
week. T his will be another one of
the m any up-to-the-m inute pieces
of equipm ent which Schm itt Bros,
are constantly adding. W hile the
engine will be used for the most
part for scientific roadbuildiug, it
will do powerful work in plowing.
T he engine is m ade by the Holt
M anufacturing Com pany, of Stock-
ton, Calif. It will plow 35 acres a
day, carries eight 14-inch plows
and can go anyw here. T he cata-
pillar is the one engine which c a n ’t
get stuck in the mud, they say.
It lays its own track as it goes, vet
it can travel at the rate of five
miles an hour.
Schm itt Brothers
have a contract with the A. C.
Bohrnsteilt O rchard Com pany to
put in improved roads between all
orchard tracts. It is said th a t this
com pany is spending more money
on the construction of w ell-drained
roads than any other orchard com
pany in the United States
Many
of these broad avenues have been
laid out. W hen th e engine arrives
Schm itt Brothers say that the com
pletion of this big contract will be
an easy m a tte r.—Chronicle.
For a Fruit Dryer.
I’ercival Rust of F.ugene, ap
peared before the Com mercial club
M onday evening and renewed his
proposition to build and equip a
first class fruit dryer and pack in g
house here providing the ground
was donated.
T he com m ittee on
securing a site reported th a t two or
three excellent locations were
available but asked for a little
more time in which to com plete
their negotiations.
So the new
dryer is practically assured and
Mr. Rust'inform s the Leader th at
lie will commence work on the
dryer and storage warehouse as
soon as a site is selected.
T he legislature provided for the
establishm ent of a state trout
hatchery on the M cKenzie river,
this county.
10 ENJOIN COUNTY COURT
AND HOLD UP U. 0. GRAFT
Taxpayers in Mass Convention Denounce Legislative
Extravagance and Devise Ways and Means
to Throw off $503.000 Burden
V O L . X X I I.
passed by the recent L egislature.
COM M ITTEE ON IN V O K IN G
E N D l’ M.
NO. 44
LOCAT AND
R E FER
H . O. Thom pson. A. B. Wood,
J. F . S pray, C. J . S tew art, C. 11.
B urkholder, R. M. V eatch an d L.
A. Cates.
COM M ITTEE ON RAISING
Industries.
FU N D S.
A. Bruud, T . C. W heeler, J . S.
S pray, G eo. O. K now les an d B.
K. Law son. O ne m an cam e for
w ard with $50 an d several $5 and
$10 co n tributions were m ade to
th is referendum fu n d a t th e close
of the m eeting.
i
Ciarence Phipps Mistak
en for a Deer and
Shot by Friend
NOTES OF T H E CONVENTION
A rousing meeting of the ta x
payers of South Lane an d N orth
Douglas county was held in the
Com mercial club rooms Monday
evening and much enthusiasm was
m anifested.
President F. I).
W heeler called the m eeting to
order and stated its object was to
discuss the m atter of enjoining
the county court of Lane county
from illegally appropriating money
from the co u n ty ’s general fund to
use iu road construction and im
provements, and also to discuss
and tak e action in the m atter of
invoking th e referendum on the
$503,000 U niversity of Oregon ap
propriation.
TO EN JO IN T H E C O l'R T .
T h e com mittee appointed to in
vestigate th e action of the county
court iu appropriating moneys
from the general fund for road
purposes, consisting of attorneys
j . K. Medley, J . C. Johnson and
W . C. Counter, reported th a t they
had thoroughly investigated the
m atter and in speeches on this
subject, both Mr. Johnson an d Mr.
«Medlev ex plained that in 1905 the
Cottage l Irove and F.ugene city
charters were am ended by the leg
islature providing th a t these mun
icipalities be set apart as separate
road districts and entitled to the
fund for roads purposed provided
from the usual road ta x levy.
Now to beat these m unicipalities
out of their just proportion of road
tax money the county court has
discontinued levying the road tax
assessment but has m ade the gen
eral levy h igh enough th a t appro
priations m ay lie m ade from the
general fund for county road p u r
poses and th e ta x paid by Cottage
G rove which should come back in
the m unicipal road improvement
fund now goes into the general
county fund and is used in road
im provem ents
throughout
the
county, thereby depriving Cottage
Grove of from $2,500 to $3,000
an n u a lly of money which should
be used upon the roads leading
into Cottage Grove. It is alleged
th at the court is not only evading
the law, b ut actu ally violating the
law in liotjlevyitig the usual road
tax and in appropriating money
from the general fund for road
purposes. A resolution was u n
animously passed by the m eeting,
instructing the city council to com
mence injunction
proceedings
against the Lane county court at
its option and discretion.
It was
Fugeue which took sim ilar action
against the couuty court a few
years ago and won its case in the
circuit court, which decision was
upheld in the suprem e court.
C . OF O
A PPRO PR IA TIO N .
T h at the appropriation of $503,-
000 provided for the University of
Oregon by the late lam ented legis
lature is ex trav ag an t, burdensom e
to the taxpayers and th a t no e x i
gency or em ergencies justifies such
an
ex trav ag an t
appropriation,
am ounting to about $10,000 each
for every student in th at ed u ca
tional institution for two years,
was the general concensus of opin
ion of this tax p ay ers m eeting.
Able speeches on this question
were m ade by O. M. Kern, atto r
ney ]. S. Medley, Geo.O. Knowles,
C. II. Burkholder, Capt. J . C.
Johnson, M artin A nderson and
others. Many expressed the o pin
ion that no more perm anent im
provements should be m ade on the
U. of O. cam pus until F'ugene
could guarantee an adequate su p
ply of pure, wholesome w ater
w hich at this tim e is not iu sight.
It was shown that the total appro
priations of the late lam ented leg
islature would am ount to about $75
each for every tax p ay er of the
state and that it is time for the
taxpayers to call a halt is evi
dent to every th in k in g citizen.
T he U niversity faculty contended
two years ago that if an appropria
tion of $250,000 was granted by
the state this would be adequate
for all purposes for m auy years to
come, but already they dem and
and are granted $503,000.
Money was subscribed and com
mittees appointed to secure the
necessary signatures to the refer
endum petitions after the meeting
liad*expressed, through unanim ous
vote, in favor of invoking the ref
erendum iiixiii the appropriations
for the institution
at Eugeue.
Resolutions fram ed declared the
appropriations ex trav ag an t
and
needless at this p articular tim e.
S tirring speeches were made de
nouncing several other measures
President F'rauk W heeler ably
um pired th e gam e.
Remember sweet pea p lan tin g
Chas. Burkholder headed the day tomorrow— W ednesday.
conservatives.
\V. (). Cook says rock costs the
O. M. Kem was th e Cicero of county $2 per y ard at the county
the convention.
crushers.
C apt. Johnson w as there w ith
I larold H um bert went to C ottage
the legal advice.
G rove S atu rd ay to sing at the
Lew C ates got w arm ed up an d C hristian ch u rc h .— Register.
delivered au oration.
( i . L. Nichols, city engineer,
F ran k K in g surprised his friends
will plat the 5(H)-acre tra c t at Lo-
by keeping out of the m ixup.
M artin A nderson m ade some rniie recently purchased by the
very pertiueut an d wise suggestions. M ilw aukee O rchard com pany.
Geo. O. Knowles and fam ily
Ju d g e Medley supplied the wit,
hum or, p athos and sarcasm —the h av e moved into tlieir newly a c
fun.
I quired residence property near th e
Jim Ilem euw ay alleged L in n ' west side public school building.
county an d all of the G rangers are
Mrs. F ran k Snodgrass arrived
with us.
in the city on the noon train F ri
G . O. Know les related some in day from C ottage G rove to visit
side facts concerning th e greed of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Y.
the U. of O.
Abbot t . —G u a rd .
M ayor Kim e and A lderm an B.
T h e > 10,000 bonds liave arrived
Lawson delivered the goads on b e here, been executed by the m ayor
h alf of the m unicipality.
and recorder an d hasteued back to
Thom pson an d Spray were not New York.
It is expected th a t
able to be preseut. Reason, rh e u the money will be available this
m atism in the knees from bowing w eek.
down to legislators iu interest of
A. I). Owens who was so se
co uuty bill.
verely injured in his saw m ill last
T he joke is oil Assessor Keeney week lias returned hom e from the
of E ugene, who cam e to attend a ; Eugene hospital an d is able to be
“ ta x p a y e rs” m eeting b ut found about again. He was severely cut
him self a deliberator iu au anti-U . j an d bruised about the face an d
O. graft an d an ti-E u g en e m eeting. 1 head.
Brings Suit for Personal Injury
Mrs. Martin D orw ard an d son,
W . Dorward, of M ilwaukee, W is
consin, arrived iu C ottage G rove
last week to visit in the fam ily of
tlieir relative, George A. Dorwood,
who resides im m ediately west of
the ciiy.
Ralph E- Love has com menced
suit against the C ham bers Lum ber
com pany of C ottage G rove for per
sonal injuries received by him
w hile w orking forsaid com pany as
Doretia is now possessed of ad e
result of w hich he says he is quate protection ag ain st loss by
wholly in cap acitated for m an u al fire, having connection with the
labor.
lie w an ts $7500 for said Cottage Grove pipe line from L an g
injury w hich he alleges was re creek.
T he city receives $5 per
ceived from d efen d an ts’ neglect. m onth for the service.
W ater
Seitz & Seitz, of Portland, are Com missioner G reen Pitcher tapped
p lain tiff’s atto rn ey s.— Register.
i the line last week.
A piece of flan n el ilan q x 'n ed w ith
C h a m b e rla in '» L in im e n t am t Ixmml on
to th e affected p a rts is su p e rio r to any
p laster.
W h en tro u b le d w itli lam e
track o r p a in s in th e sid e o r ch est g iv e
it a tria l an d yon are c e rta in to lx- m ore
th an p leased w itli th e p ro m p t relief
w h ich it affords.
Sold b y H enson’s
P h arm acy .
This Cut Is An Exact Copy of
The Manner In W hich Our
Coat Fronts Are Made
They are hand tailored fronts, hand tailored
collars, hand made button holes, buttons sewed
on by hand. What more could you ask in a
Suit fo r '$18.00 to $27,50. Oh! A French
hair-cloth non-breakable front? W ell, w e have
that too.
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W H EELER-TH O M PSO N CO.
T h e sam e old story— m istaken
for a deer—is th e cause of the trag-
| ic death of C larence Phipps, aged
! ’. ~ years, in the hills 4 miles east
! of Coburg S unday afternoon.
He
was shot an d 'k illed by Mr. H arry
S utherland, a com panion alxiut the
| sam e age.
M. I). Sheburne of K ansas lias
bought the Alice Canfield place of
ten acres, oue miles west of Cot
tage Grove, the consideration b e
ing $2100.
Mr. Sheburne also
b ought for his son the Nelson D ex
ter ran ch of 46 acres, three miles
south of town, the consideration
being $15no.
M rs. Marie H artu u g lias filed
| divorce proceedings against her
| h usband, W. A Ilartttu g , nml
asks for the care and custody of
I tlieir youngest child, E va M«v,
1 1 a g e ' S years.
T he couple was
m arried in South D akota 24 years
! ago and he w as formerly engaged
: iii the flour m illing business in this
I city.
Assessor B. F . Keeney w as in-
! vited to appear before the Cottage
I ! G rove Com m ercial club Monday
i evening and ex p lain his side of
’ i th e ta x controversy. He accepted
i 1 the invitation an d m ade an ernest,
eloquent address and a most favor
able impression upon his m any
¡hearers.
He quickly and very
; satisfactorily answ ered every ques-
i tioti put to him by one of his op
ponents, Mr. H olland of Pleasant
i H ill who was here endeavoring to
! have recall petitions signed up
i ag ain st Mr. Keeney. T he genial
, | assessor showed conclusively it
1 was the ta x law s and not the
¡(assessor which is at fatil*. lie
(w as accorded a most courteous
h earin g and a cordial reception.
C ottage Grove will never lie a
p arty to any recall proceedings
ag ain st B. F. Keeney
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